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...measured not by a dollar amount but rather by a person's character. For example, one of Time's Persons of the Year, Bono, is successful in the fight against global poverty. It is tragic that such examples were not used in this article to better define ambition. Instead, Britney Spears and Sean (Diddy) Combs are used as examples of people whose ambitions led them to succeed. If the ladder to the top includes their like, then I would rather get stuck on the rung of indifference. Joshua Lange Nagano, Japan...
...Miranda ’09. “But he’s not. He’s a really cool kid.” Shields, known to his Greek fans as “Petros,” admits that he receives much of his inspiration from Britney Spears. “She’s not exactly my role model, but she is the greatest thing pop culture has in our generation,” he says. “She’s great at capturing attention and controlling people.” As for himself...
...asking for my autograph," he says, shaking his head. "It was totally topsy-turvy. Can you imagine in the U.S. the Secretary of Education fawning on a Nobel prizewinner? It just won't happen." In his book Thomas Friedman puts it another way: "In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears--and that is our problem...
...terribly surprising when a couple of kids like Britney and Justin or a couple of oddballs like Angelina and Billy Bob split up. But LANCE ARMSTRONG and SHERYL CROW had seemed different--steeled by age (he's 34; she's 43) and serious about their commitments (seven Tour de France wins and nine Grammys don't come easy). Yet after a five-month engagement, Armstrong and Crow called it quits in a statement asking for "privacy during this very difficult time." O.K., though we are curious about what happens to the 6-carat rock she showed Barbara Walters last year...
Compared with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Clarkson is almost always portrayed as a wholesome, unsophisticated girl with an outsize natural talent--a bumpkin with a gift. She really was a cocktail waitress at a comedy club in her hometown of Burleson, Texas, before an Idol audition started her on the road to fame, but it's rarely noted that Clarkson already lived in Hollywood (she was only in Burleson because her apartment burned down), or that, as a demo singer for Gerry Goffin, the ex-husband of Carole King and co-writer...